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- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
In terms of performance the 9070XT is between the 7800XT and the 7900XT. Keep in mind in terms of price used you can find the 7900XT the same price as a used 9070XT except it performs 7.9% better (source). Imo when a GPU is barely competitive with the last gen that’s just not a serious gen, while it is 10% faster than the 7800XT launch price is also $100 more expensive.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
To be fair AMD hasn’t released a serious GPU in almost four years, Nvidia GPUs are just significantly overpriced in general, and Intel is just not competitive on the GPU market. Meanwhile CPU upgrades have been becoming less and less significant as gamers care more about GPU performance and AI bros care more about vram. Of course there’s always new gen 5 nvme ssds but few people care and ddr5 ram is just too expensive for what it offers. I think there needs to be a massive push for enthusiasts to build a new PC, like the adoption of LPCAMM2 on desktops, GPUs that offer significant improvements, or maybe some new hardware feature.
- Comment on Steam Machine, here we go 2 weeks ago:
It was abandoned essentially for quite a bit of time, I believe it has been removed from the debian repos as well. Recently KDE revamped the UI and revived the project around Wayland and modern Plasma.
- Comment on Steam Controller and Puck CAD files now available! 3 weeks ago:
What other API are they supposed to support that has wide support and supports all features while not being tied to a specific ecosystem? Because as I said if they made a standalone steaminput driver that would require explicit support from developers (outside steam nobody else really interprets controller input the same way, typically they just allow the devs to do whatever). Its more complex than games just automatically accept any controller with any input method, they either need a stable API to call upon (which outside of steam is basically just xinput) or have a translation layer. Lets be honest nobody is going out of their way to support a standalone steaminput except maybe gog.
- Comment on Steam Controller and Puck CAD files now available! 3 weeks ago:
If it was xinput you would be correct it would not require any additional dev work as they already support xinput, however functionality would be so severely reduced that honestly I cannot think of a single reason to use it like that (unless you really like the ergonomics I guess). If they went out of their way to make a standalone steaminput driver though that would require additional dev work for game devs that nobody else would do. You say why make excuses for rich corporations but why are you making excuses for xbox basically limiting xinput to their own controllers. Objectively xinput sucks, its clear that they never intended it to be a universal standard and until a truly open source API can replace it then yeah you’re going to have weird solutions like requiring steam open.
- Comment on Steam Controller and Puck CAD files now available! 3 weeks ago:
Not even remotely related, also if they made a standalone driver it wouldnt matter because for the most part xinput doesnt support the unique hardware and if they made a standalone steaminput driver nobody else would put in any effort to support it. Its like how Valve lets anyone publish software for SteamOS by supporting flatpaks yet not a single other store acturally does. They would need to emulate xinput or directly support it meaning the touchpads and back buttons wouldnt be supported along with gyro or touchsense (at that point just get a standard controller).
- Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts 1 month ago:
Already blocked with revanced
- Comment on Introducing SteamVR 2.15 2 months ago:
SteamVR supports Linux natively, VR headsets on the other hand is a case by case situation (if the headset doesn’t support Linux SteamVR can’t magically make it work)
- Comment on Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout 4 months ago:
Personally the show just makes me feel sad, everything is grand and scaled up yet nothing matters and everything feels tiny. So I’ll just list of several nitpiks because I feel like it:
- The NCR is randomly dead for some BS reason and we’re all just supposed to accept that nothing rises from the ashes. As if a nuke could kill the NCR considering in NV leadership is clearly more local.
- The legion is simplified and dulled down with no praetorian, no centurions, and no frumentarii. Then they’re probably just killed or something because Bethesda hates factions now I guess.
- The brotherhood is just all style no substance like the rest of the show
- Minor factions like the followers ofc don’t appear at all
- The MC is unbearable, how does one exist in the fallout universe yet always pick the wrong dialogue options?
Im not asking for it to be deep and philosophical, hell it doesn’t even need to have NV levels of Hegalian dialectics, but at least some substance other than “vault tech is big bad and society is perpetually dead”
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 months ago:
Its still highly up in the air if it’ll acturally have the performance to play PCVR games considering Fex overhead or if it’ll essentially be a tethered headset
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 months ago:
Yeah and I can also play most games on my PC, unless the Steam Frame can also run VR games it’ll be a hard sell
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 months ago:
I guess VRChat will still exist but getting into VR will be very difficult
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 months ago:
People here forget that a likely $700+ headset designed for streaming (let’s be honest we have no idea how many games will make native ports) is mostly gonna take off with VR enthusiasts. Like the Index this is an explicitly premium headset.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 months ago:
No but undeniably the death of the metaverse is taking VR with it, once meta leaves the VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 months ago:
I predict it’ll be four times the price, and overpriced toy with no games